Hair-waving apparatus



1937. R. LELAND I 2,091,785 I 1% IR WAVING APPARATUS Filed Aug. 4, 1936INVENTOR Ra nvala? G,LEZCIVICZ ATTORNE S Patented Aug. 31, 1937 UNETEDSTATES PATENT OFFIQE 4 Claims.

This invention relates to hair-waving apparatus and more particularly tospecific forms of such apparatus which are designed for curling the hairin connection with any apparatus for steaming, heating, or treating thesame.

The primary object of the invention is to provide means which permit therapid curling of the hair, the effectual holding of the curl or curls,and the safeguarding of the head of the person being treated from anypossibility of burns, and also precluding the possibility of pulling thehair to the great discomfort of the person operated upon.

More specifically this. application has to do with my improved winderand constitutes a continuation in part of my copending application forpatent on hair-waving apparatus filed November 30, 1935, and givenSerial Number 52,388.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction and combinations and arrangements ofparts, all of which will be more fully hereinafter described and pointedout in the 5 claims.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a view in side elevationillustrating my improved apparatus;

Fig. 2 is a somewhat enlarged perspective view of my improved winder;

Fig. 3 is a somewhat enlarged view in transverse section on the line 3-3of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a view in side elevation looking at the opposite side fromthat illustrated in Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view in elevation showing the position of theclip on the forming bar after the hair-curling operation has ended, thewinder removed, and the clip operatively holding the hair and cord woundon the bar;

Fig. 6 is a view in elevation of the bar and clip;

and

Fig. '7 is a view in elevation of the device, similar to Fig. 4 butomitting parts of the apparatus to clearly illustrate the shape of thejaw.

The reference character Bis employed to indicate generally my improvedwinder, which comprises a pair of jaws. 2i and 28 having finger holds 29and til respectively, and which are pivotally connected by a pin 3ihaving a coil spring 31': thereon tending to close the jaws.

These jaws 2? and 28 constitute angles in longitudinal section and saidangles are larger at one end of the jaws than they are at the other sothat the interior of the jaws has a longitudinal taper. Both of thesejaws are provided at their free edges with flaring flanges, the flange33 of jaw 21 being appreciably longer than the flange 34 of jaw 28. Thelonger flange has a cord-receiving notch 35 therein and the jaw 28 atone 'end, which constitutes the en- 5 trance end, is beveled or inclinedfrom the extremity of the jaw to the flange 34, as shown at 36. Afinger-receiving wire frame 37 is connected to the finger holds 29 and3E! and a finger of the hand may be inserted in this frame 1 31 to causethe winder to be rapidly turned around the bar I in coiling the hairthereon. This frame 31' comprises a single length of spring wire withits respective ends connected to the finger holds 29 and 30 andintermediate 15 the ends of the wire it is given a circular shapeconstituting a finger-receiving ring 2. A portion of this ringconstitutes a double thickness of wire or half coil as indicated at 3,which provides a clamp to receive a strand of hair 20 therein. Anelastic cord 38 is connected to one of the finger holds, 29 or 3B, andis provided with a hook 39 which may be caught over one of the flanges,33 or 34 which will position the elastic cord across the strand of hairand resil- 25 iently bind the same against the jaw so as to exert acertain amount of tension upon the strand of hair as the latter is woundon the bar I as shown more clearly in Fig. 1 of the drawing. 30

The operation of the apparatus above described is as follows: A cord 4is secured at one end to the base A and a sliding clip 5 is mounted toslide on the forming bar I and is normally located at the upper end ofthis bar. The bar I is then inserted 5 in the base and the strand ofhair I3 is passed through the base and clamped therein. The strand ofhair is then wound, preferably by placing the winder B in position withits jaws over the bar, the free end of the strand being posi- 40 tionedaround a finger hold of the winder and through the clamp 3 and furtherheld by the elastic cord 38. The cord 4 is wound around the strand ofhair and positioned in the notch and its extremity is loosely positionedaround the frame 45 31 and rod I.

As shown most clearly in Fig. 6 of the drawing, the lower end of the barI is tapered, as shown at 6. This is desirable because the hair adjacentthe head is thickest and the bar compensates for 5 this thicker portionof the hair. Initially the winder when positioned around the rod andstrand of hair is manipulated by grasping the jaws 21 and 28 between thefingers so as to exert a greater clamping action on the strand of hair55 than is provided by the spring 32 alone. As soon as the hair is woundseveral times around the rod this additional pressure is not necessaryso that the operator may insert his forefinger into the loop 2, as shownmost clearly in Fig. 1 of the drawing and rapidly turn the winder aroundthe bar causing the hair to tightly wind thereon and the string 4 towind around the coil of hair. When the strand is completely wound on thebar the winder is removed and the clip 5 slid down to a position toclamp the strand and the cord, as shown clearly in Fig. 5 of thedrawing.

While I have illustrated and described whatI believe to be the preferredembodiment of my invention, it is obvious that various slight changesmay be made with regard to the formandarrangement of parts withoutdeparting from my invention, and hence I do not limit myself to theprecise details set forth but consider myself at liberty to make suchchanges and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope ofthe invention.

Iclaim:

1. A hair-waving apparatus including a base, a curl-forming barremovably coupled to the base, a hair winder adapted to be positionedover the bar and over a strand of Wound hair on the bar, said windercomprising jaws tapering from end to end, flaring flanges on said jaws,one of said flanges preferably longer than the other, and afinger-receiving ring spaced from and operatively connected to bothjaws.

3. A hair-waving apparatus including a base, a forming bar removablycoupled to the base, a hair winder on the bar comprising pivoted jawsand finger holds connected to the jaws, a wire receiving finger frameconnected to the finger holds,

and an elastic cord connected to one of the finger holds and having ahook adapted to engage the otherfinger hold.

4. A winder of the character described comprising a pair ofspring-pressed jaws, a pair of finger holds connected to the jaws, awire frame connected to the finger holds, said wire frame at its upperportion constituting a, finger-receiving loop, and a partial coil whichtogether with the loop constitutes-a strand-receiving clamp.

RAGNVALD G. LELAND.

